Starmer says Sunak’s plans to tackle small boats are ‘unworkable’ – live

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Starmer says Sunak’s plans to tackle small boats are ‘unworkable’ – live
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Labour leader says party would tackle people smugglers themselves and calls PM’s proposals ‘unworkable’

1) Sunak is relying on plans that won’t work because he’s daft. But he is not at all daft – quite the opposite – so we can discount that.

3) Sunak does not care whether the plans work or not, because he just wants to go into an election being able to blamefor the fact the government has not been able to deport asylum seekers en masse. There are probably some in the Conservative party who do favour this strategy, but it is risky. Polls suggest voters don’t blame Labour for asylum policy failing, but the government.

, argued that the plans could increase the number of small boat crossings in the short term. Asked whether the plans would halt the crossings, she told the Today programme:

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